
Job Title: Adult Social Worker - Hospital Team - Southwark
Location: Southwark (Hybrid)
Pay Rate: £32 per hour
About the Role:
Join the Hospital Team as an Adult Social Worker, conducting Care Act assessments, support planning, and leading Safeguarding Enquiries while collaborating with health, housing, and voluntary organisations to ensure comprehensive care for vulnerable adults.
What will your responsibilities be?
In this role, you will support Southwark’s @Home/Urgent pathway, a hospital admission avoidance service. You will intervene with residents who can be supported home from hospital emergency departments (ED) and those at risk of admission from home. Your responsibilities include assessing patients' needs, coordinating care plans, and ensuring a safe transition back to their homes. You will collaborate with healthcare professionals to provide comprehensive support, aiming to reduce unnecessary hospital admissions and improve patient outcomes.
Benefits:
Essential Requirements:
Why Liquid Personnel?
Liquid Personnel is an equal opportunities employer. Liquid Personnel Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. * Terms and conditions apply to our bonus schemes.
Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity by contacting our team. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.
We are unable to support or accept applications from candidates who are residents within the Red or Amber list of the Code of practice for the international recruitment of health and social care personnel in England, based on the World Health Organisation (WHO) Workforce Support and Safeguard List.
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Liquid Personnel is a specialist social work and healthcare recruitment consultancy. Founded in 2006, we are now the leading provider of agency social workers in the UK, trusted by over 150 organisations nationwide to provide exceptional agency staff.
We also specialise in the following divisions:
• Nursing - temporary and permanent nurses
• Allied Health Professionals - temporary occupational therapists and physiotherapists
• Criminal Justice - temporary prison nurses, probation officers, and youth offending officers
Accreditations:
- Listed in the UK's Best Medium Workplaces Awards 2013 - 2017; winners of the Laureate Award 2017, recognising that we have been ranked in the awards for 5 years in a row
- 24th in The Sunday Times 100 Best Small Companies to Work For 2016
- Winners of the Best People Development Business Award and Best Back Office Support Team Award 2016 at the Institute of Recruitment Professionals Awards
- 7th fastest-growing business in the Manchester area in the Greater Manchester Fastest 50 2016
- 11th in Recruiter Fast 50 2016 rankings
- Winners of "Best Large Recruitment Agency" at the Recruitment Business Awards 2015
- Holders of Investors in People status
- Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) Members
- 'Disability Confident Employers'